Posts by: Tasha Cotter

Danielle Cadena Deulen has assembled a collection that deftly maneuvers through dew-formed natural worlds, myths, and histories gone wrong to create a poetry collection that I found hypnotic and, at times, laced with violence and impending doom.

I was at a writer’s conference in San Miguel de Allende when a classmate first introduced me to the work of Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes. All month long my class had been required to introduce each other to new poetry being written in Mexico.

Bestselling author Rebecca Skloot is everywhere these days. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, was over ten years in the making and was recently dubbed a Notable Book of 2010 by The New York Times.

Tasha Cotter's work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, Booth, Contrary Magazine, and elsewhere. Her fiction was recently nominated for a storySouth Million Writers award, and she regularly blogs for Contrary Magazine. You can find her online at www.tashacotter.com.

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